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Kafkalla tis Malis

Tomb 55, P56

White Painted III

bowl

Rim, handle and body fragment from a small bowl. Incurving rounded rim. Pierced lug handle at the rim. Decorated with slightly lustrous red-brown paint. Solid paint on rim. On interior, four parallel vertical lines, as preserved. On exterior, below rim multiple parallel angled lines, probably a six- or more line horizontal zig-zag, above two horizontal lines. Below, as preserved, a horizontal row of solid diamonds below a horizontal line. Horizontal paring marks visible in interior. Drawn.

General shape: small open -- Extent preserved: <1/3 -- Parts: rim, handle, body -- Joins: 1 -- Rim course: incurved -- Rim profile: thinning -- Rim end: rounded -- Handle type: pierced lug -- Handle location: from rim -- Rim diameter - general: 100-200 -- Rim diameter - specific: 180 -- Wall below rim: 2 -- Wall - body: 3 -- Exterior slip: thin -- Interior slip: thin -- Exterior lustre: slight -- Interior lustre: ? -- Paint lustre: slight -- Mottling - interior: none -- Mottling - exterior: none -- Colour - exterior: 7.5YR7/4, 7.5YR7/6 -- Colour interior: 7.5YR7/4, 7.5YR7/6 -- Colour - fabric: 7.5YR6/4 -- Colour - core: light -- Burnish: even -- Texture: very fine -- Inclusions - number: few -- Inclusions - size: small, medium -- Inclusions - colour: red, white -- Hardness: medium-hard -- Core presence: thick -- Decoration technique: painted